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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has become the first Australian prime minister to win a second three -year consecutive mandate in 21 years.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton admitted the defeat in Saturday choiceSaying: “We did not do it well enough during this campaign, that is obvious tonight, and I accept full responsibility for that.”
“Previously, I called the Prime Minister to congratulate him for his success tonight. It is a historical occasion for the Labor Party and we recognize it,” he added.
The projections of the Australian Electoral Commission granted the Labor Party of the Labor Center of Albanese 70 seats and the Conservative Opposition Coalition 24 seats in the 150 -seat representatives chamber, the lower chamber where the parties need the majority to form governments. Non -aligned minor matches and independent candidates seemed to win 13 seats.
Australian Broadcasting Corp. The respected electoral analyst Antony Green predicted that the Labor would earn 76 seats, coalition 36 and non -aligned legislators 13. Green said that the Labor would form a majority or minority government and that the coalition had no hope of even forming a minority government.
Energy and inflation policy have been important problems in the campaign, with both parties agreeing that the country faces a cost of life crisis.
The opposition leader described ‘Doge-Y Dutton’
Dutton’s conservative liberal party blames government waste for boosting inflation and increasing interest rates, and has pledged more than one in five public service works to reduce government spending.
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While both say that the country should reach Net Net Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2050, Dutton argues that depending on more nuclear energy instead of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind turbines would offer less expensive electricity.
The Labor Center Labor Center, the opposition leader, “Doge-Y Dutton”, accused his imitation party The president of the United States, Trump and his government efficiency department.
Work argues that the Dutton administration would reduce services to pay its nuclear ambitions.
“We have seen the attempt to direct the American policy here from the division and face the Australians with each other and I think that is not the Australian form,” Albanese said.
Albanese also pointed out that his government had improved relations with China, which eliminated a series of official and unofficial commercial barriers that had cost the Australian exporters 20 billion Australian dollars ($ 13 billion) a year since the work came to power in 2022.
A crisis of cost of living as the country faces a generational change
The choice is carried out in a context of what both sides of politics describe as a cost of life crisis.
Foodbank Australia, the largest food food organization in the country, reported that 3.4 million homes in the country of 27 million people experienced food insecurity last year.
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That meant that the Australians skip their meals, ate less or worried about running out of food before being able to buy more.
The Central Bank reduced its reference cash interest rate at a quarter -quarter’s percentage point in February 4.1% in an indication that the worst financial difficulties had passed. The rate is expected to be reduced again at the next meeting of the Bank Board on May 20, this time to encourage investment in the midst of international economic uncertainty generated by Trump’s tariff policies.
Both campaigns have focused on the changing demography of Australia. The election is the first in Australia in which the Baby Boomers, born between the end of World War II and 1964, are surpassed in number by younger voters.
Both campaigns promised policies to help first -home buyers to buy in a real estate market that is too expensive for many.
The election could produce a minority government
Upon entering the elections, the Labor had a large majority of 78 seats in a house of representatives of 151 seats. There will be 150 seats in the next Parliament due to redistribution.
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A loss of more than two seats could force the Labor to try to form a minority government with the support of uncoated legislators.
There was a minority government after the 2010 elections, and the last one before was during World War II.
The last time none of the parties won the majority, it took 17 days after the surveys closed before the key independent legislators announced that they would support a labor administration.
